Johnnie Notions is reputed not to have lost a single patient.
10 Facts About Johnnie Notions
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The technique was highly successful and it and Johnnie Notions was highly esteemed in Shetland.
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Johnnie Notions was revered in contemporary accounts for the work he did.
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Oral history recounts that Johnnie Notions was able to save 16 of the 24 remaining inhabitants of Foula after an epidemic of smallpox struck there, and that he was "greatly honoured" for having saved their lives.
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Johnnie Notions is believed to have saved many more lives than he caused harm to.
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Johnnie Notions was considered someone who could apply his manual skills to many different trades and crafts.
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Johnnie Notions was described during his lifetime as "a singular instance of an uncommon variety of talents, being a tailor, a joiner, a clock and watch-mender, a blacksmith, and a physician".
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Johnnie Notions was additionally attributed with being a farmer, fisherman, and weaver.
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Johnnie Notions is said to have constructed a complex functional miniature watermill, which was based on a mill which he had only viewed a single time.
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The only known remaining work of Johnnie Notions is a wig stretching block that was made for James Cheyne, 7th Laird of Tangwick, who was the laird of the area around Eshaness.